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| 9577466292 | Enlightenment | an intellectual movement which dominated the world of ideas in Europe in the 18th century. The Enlightenment included a range of ideas centered on reason as the primary source of authority and legitimacy, and came to advance ideals such as liberty, progress, tolerance, fraternity, constitutional government, and separation of church and state | 0 | |
| 9577466295 | Declaration of Independence | July 4, 1776; the document that America used to claim its independence from Britain while still at war; listed enlightenment ideas and what the colonies wanted from their independence versus what they had | 1 | |
| 9577466296 | Thomas Jefferson | wrote the draft of the declaration of independence; founding father and third president | 2 | |
| 9577466297 | George Washington | military leader during the Revolution and became the first president of the United States, which set precedents for the future of america | 3 | |
| 9577466300 | Constituiton | written by the founding fathers when US was granted its freedom; serves as the national laws and as the framework for the country | 4 | |
| 9577466301 | Bill of Rights | the name of the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution; written to protect the rights of every American citizen | 5 | |
| 9577466302 | American Revolution | war that took place in the united states that forced Britain to give the US independence and the right to stop being a colony; inspired other countries to rebel against monarchies and being colonies | 6 | |
| 9577466303 | ancien regime | the monarchic, aristocratic, social and political system established in the Kingdom of France from approximately the 15th century until the latter part of the 18th century | 7 | |
| 9577466304 | estates general | the first meeting since 1614 of the French Estates-General, a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm; king called meeting to ask for help with debt and taxes; in the end the third estate called its own meeting which signaled the start of the french revolution | 8 | |
| 9577466305 | tennis court oath | third estate took the tennis court oath to promise to band together and fight against the monarchy | 9 | |
| 9577466306 | storming of the bastille | paris; lots of people were angry so they went into this big artillery shin dig and stole all the weapons; symbolized the revolution and the cruelty of the monarchy | 10 | |
| 9577466307 | declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen | fundamental document of the french revolution; cited natural right and the equality between all people in france | 11 | |
| 9577466308 | reign of terror | period in france when executions of the enemies of the rebellion were killed; robespierre led revolution which created a lot of violence and bloodshed | 12 | |
| 9577466310 | Robespierre | a french lawyer and politician that ruled led the reign of terror after the revolution was somewhat successful and executed enemies of the revolution | 13 | |
| 9577466311 | maroon societies | african people who escaped american slavery and formed settlements independently | 14 | |
| 9577466313 | saint domingue | French colony in the Caribbean where the slaves began to overthrow the French authority | 15 | |
| 9577466314 | sugar plantations | sugar was the main crop from the Caribbea which helped build the slave game in the area | 16 | |
| 9577466315 | Toussaint Louverture | leader of the Haitian revolution; first fought for spain against france, and then for france against spain and britain and then against napolean to abolish slavery in present day haiti | 17 | |
| 9577466316 | napolean | a general that rose to lead france through his military prowess; reigned after reign of terror, and at first provided fair government but became greedy and spread too far; haitian revolution beat napolean's troops; defeated in a small country between italy and spain and was exiled | 18 | |
| 9577466317 | haitian independence | Louverture led slaves through a brutal rebellion until another leader claimed the island to be Haiti, an independent country with slavery abolished within it | 19 | |
| 9577466319 | peninsular | spanish born spaniard | 20 | |
| 9577466320 | creole | white european in latin america | 21 | |
| 9577466321 | peninsular war | a military conflict between Napoleon's empire and the allied powers of Spain, Britain and Portugal for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars | 22 | |
| 9577466322 | simon bolivar | el libertador; created gran colombia; letter from jamaica; exiled from venezuela; created bolivia; dictator of peru; wanted latin america to have an english style parliament | 23 | |
| 9577466327 | grito de delores | the beginning of the mexican war for independence (think shot heard around the world) | 24 |
